I believe Joel's [answer][1] to a meta.so post is the best answer for this. So I'm going to blatantly rip it off :)

>"Too localized" should be used for very tiny geographic regions or vanishingly small periods of time. It is used when a question cannot possibly be answered because nobody participating in the site is likely to know the answer, and even if it were answered, nobody else would care.




[1]:https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/87415/140512